A Newbie using Expressions

Tips on writing regular expressions for searching the post list

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A Newbie using Expressions

Postby Maxdout38 » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:00 am

Hello:

First of all, I was a long time Agent user just switched to Newsbin.

Agent seems to filter slightly different from Newsbin.

1. I want to exclude any messages with .exe (I understand I would use the expression "\.exe" (No Quotes). Is there a Kill filter that would delete these messages from the group after I applied the filter?
For Example, the initial download already happened and now I add the filter. How do I make the messages already downloaded with exe go away?

2. Is there a way to filter messages that have 3 or less lines. In Agent I would use the the following: [1:3]. What would be the proper syntax in Newsbin to not bring them in on a download.

3. If you'd like to filter out a specific author, can you explain the proper steps to do this in Newsbin?

Thank you again for the great product and I'm kicking myself for being with Agent so long.

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Postby dexter » Thu Mar 04, 2010 11:34 am

1) Just reloading the group should apply the filter.

2) Use a size filter for this. For example, set a minimum file size of 5K in the Global filter profile (under Add Filters).

3) Right-click on the post and select Lockout Poster or hit ctrl-P.
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Postby Maxdout38 » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:30 pm

1) Just reloading the group should apply the filter.

I'd rather not reload a 3 million message group.
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Postby Quade » Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:45 pm

There's a filter dropdown at the top of the list. If you drop it, pick a filter and undrop it, it'll apply the filter.

Couple other things. If you search for "[.]exe", hit Ctrl-A then shift-delete. It'll delete all the matching posts both from disk and from the display so, you never need to see them again.

I don't know how Agent does it but, Newsbin lets you clean all the crap out of the stored posts.
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Postby Maxdout38 » Thu Mar 04, 2010 2:20 pm

Quade wrote:There's a filter dropdown at the top of the list. If you drop it, pick a filter and undrop it, it'll apply the filter.

Couple other things. If you search for "[.]exe", hit Ctrl-A then shift-delete. It'll delete all the matching posts both from disk and from the display so, you never need to see them again.

I don't know how Agent does it but, Newsbin lets you clean all the crap out of the stored posts.


May be a dumb questions, but how do you search for an author and delete his posts?
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Postby DThor » Thu Mar 04, 2010 3:35 pm

There's currently nothing to do that explicitly in a single step, although something similar has been knocked around as an idea for a while.

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Postby Quade » Thu Mar 04, 2010 5:49 pm

Click on one of his posts, column sort on "From" then select his posts and shift-del.
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